Imagining Abolition: Beyond Prisons, Wars, and Borders
A Virtual Gathering
April 14-17, 2021
~ Announcing Our Keynote Speakers ~
Wednesday 14 April 2021 ~ Abolish Wars
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8:00 - 8:50 am Welcome: Meet the Organizers
9:10 - 10:00 am Session 1: Abolish Carceral Genders
10:30 - 11:30 am Keynote 1: Professor Joy James on "Until the Next (Up)Rising" (with ASL)
11:30 - 12:30 pm Wellness Break Renewing Emotional Reserves When Doing Hard Work with Melanie Marsden
12:30 - 1:30 pm Roundtable 1: Stories of Injustice
1:50 - 3:05 pm Session 2: Abolish the Military Industrial Complex
3:25 - 4:55 pm Workshop 1: Volunteer Collective: 'Alternative Justices Project' (with ASL)
5:15 - 6:30 pm Workshop 2: The Bail Debt Dispute Tool
6:50 - 7:50 pm Workshop 3: The Trauma of Incarceration
8:10 - 9:25 pm Session 3: Abolish Carceral Affects
Thursday 15 April 2021 ~ Abolish Prisons
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8:00 - 9:30 am Workshop 4: Fostering Transformative Justice Practice for Yourself
9:50 - 10:35 am Workshop 5: Theory to Action: using research to strengthen the prison abolitionist movement
10:55 - 12:10 pm Session 4: African and Black Radical Tradition: Co-opted (with ASL)
12:30 - 1:30 pm Keynote 2: Professor Alex Vitale on "Abolition in Practice: Responding to the mobilization of violence talk by police apologists" (with ASL)
1:45 - 2:20 pm Keynote 3: Stevie Wilson pre-recorded message
2:20 - 3:00 pm Wellness Break Renewing Emotional Reserves When Doing Hard Work with Melanie Marsden
3:00 - 4:00 pm Panel Discussion 1: Currently Incarcerated Folx -- CANCELED
4:20 - 5:45 pm Session 5: Abolish Civilizing Violence
6:05 - 7:35 pm Workshop 6: How to Not Call the PoLice EVER (with ASL)
7:55 - 8:45 pm Session 6: Abolish Crime and Intent: its roots and social construction
9:05 - 9:35 pm Conference Critiques
Friday 16 April 2021 ~ Abolish Borders
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8:00 - 9:00 am Film Discussion 1: Brown Cotton Outreach presents "Bucket Jail"
9:20 - 10:50 am Film Discussion 2: Prison Project: Little Scandinavia
11:20 - 12:25 pm Keynote 4: Harsha Walia on "Abolish Border Imperialism" (with ASL)
12:30 - 1:30 pm Wellness Break An hour of introspection with Kyeisha Hodge
1:30 - 3:10 pm Session 7: Abolish the Non-Profit Industrial Complex
3:20 - 4:40 pm Workshop 7: Building Community in the Wake of Incarceration (with ASL)
5:00 - 6:30 pm Roundtable 2: Navigating Abolition Geographies
7:00 - 7:30 pm Keynote 5: Reflections on abolition from Albert Woodfox
7:50 - 9:05 pm Session 8: Abolish the Medical Industrial Complex
Saturday 17 April 2021 ~ Abolish New Carceralities
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8:00 - 9:15 am Session 9: Abolish Carceral Imaginations
9:35 - 10:50 am Session 10: Abolish Carceral Theories, Research Methods & Praxis
10:50 - 11:50 am Wellness Break Renewing Emotional Reserves When Doing Hard Work
11:50 - 12:50 pm Keynote 6: Jalil Muntaqim on "Imagining a non-incarceral state" (with ASL)
1:10 - 2:10 pm Roundtable 3: Beating Parole Boards with Mutual Aid
2:30 - 3:30 pm Workshop 8: Writing Workshops, Art, and Community in COVID-19
3:50 - 5:05 pm Workshop 9: tearing shit apart in the California Abolition Movement
5:25 - 6:25 pm Panel Discussion 2: Abolitionist Praxis and Labour in the Carceral Continuum
6:45 - 7:35 pm Session 11: Abolish New Carceralities
7:55 - 8:55 pm Workshop 10: Alternative Dispute Resolution
9:15 - 9:45 pm Closing: Critical Reflections and Future Plans